My column on Sunday about the lack of a Bullets presence at Sports Legends at Camden Yards drew a good number of responses. The biggest one came from the person I unfortunately wasn't able to reach in time to include in the column, but who I was hoping I'd hear from soon: Michael Gibbons, executive director of Sports Legends and the Babe Ruth Museum. We also spoke by phone this morning, and he agreed to have his email to me run here:

"Your Sunday column had  my cellphone clamoring pretty early. I enjoyed your article on Sports Legends but wish you had contacted me first to gather my perspective on the Bullets.

First off, I'm a native Baltimorean who grew up  loving the Bullets, so I understand their importance to our sports heritage. I remember attending games at the coliseum.

Sports museums can only represent what their  collection bears, and the Babe Ruth Museum is still working to establish better  lines to secure Bullets memorabilia, photographs and broadcast materials.  But we are actively working on it.

The folks who run sports museums also know that  they must have years worth of programming in the works. It's always good to have  a major show in the planning stages, so that the public will have something new  to attend year-in-and-year-out.

In 2007 the Babe Ruth Museum is planning a full  renovation of the Babe Ruth Birthplace, our other attraction. In 2008...look for  something major on the Bullets. Also, something on local high school sports,  perhaps a hall of champions covering all high school athletics in the Baltimore  area. City-Poly, Dunbar basketball, the lacrosse scene, track and field, etc. 

I told Phil [Wood] on his Thursday radio show that our  future programming and exhibition schedule will not just be about basketball and  high school sports, but about our area's boxing and ice hockey  histories.

Lots to do, with space and $$$ playing a role in it  all.

By the way, we are working with the [Reginald Lewis] African  American Museum on that NBA show [on May 20], and will be doing programming at Sports  Legends featuring several prominent Baltimore-area former and current NBA'ers in  conjunction with that effort.''

In our phone conversation, Gibbons acknowledged that two substantial challenges face him in any Bullets display: memorabilia and money. There was no shortage of Orioles and Colts artifacts to put up at Sports Legends, but Bullets stuff is harder to come by, and so are donors. The same goes for the other sports and institutions he wants represented in the museum. "When it came to the Bullets, I just didn't have anything to put together in a timely fashion,'' he said. "We've got the space for it.''

The good news is that he has connected with a Baltimore Bullets legend to spearhead a drive to collect artifacts and solicit sponsors. It sounds as if the recognition of the Bullets in the museum really is "in the works.'' Thanks again to Michael Gibbons for filling us in (and, of course, for being understanding about not being included in the original column).

Now, there have to be some people out there who have something they can give, physically or monetarily, to this drive. Maybe you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who has stuff, or who wants to contribute in any way to creating this. Here's how you can contact Sports Legends at Camden Yards.